<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/louisiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louisiana</a> State House on Tuesday failed to override Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards&#8217; veto of a bill that would have banned teachers from using a new pronoun for students unless they get permission from parents.</p>
<p>The House <a href="https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243924" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> 67-29 on HB 81, three votes short of the two-thirds threshold required to override the governor&#8217;s veto.</p>
<p>Every Democrat voted against the bill <a href="https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1334282" target="_blank" rel="noopener">along with</a> two Republicans, Representatives Barbara Freiberg and Stephanie Hilferty.</p>
<p>One Republican member reportedly flew back from vacation in France to make the session, while another Republican was also vacationing in Europe, but did not fly back, and yet another Republican was out of town for a family medical situation, <a href="https://twitter.com/rjamesfinn/status/1681318110891216902" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to local reporter James Finn.</p>
<p>The pronoun <a href="https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330743" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would have required school employees to use the name on a student&#8217;s birth certificate or a derivative of that name unless the student&#8217;s parent provides written permission to do otherwise.</p>
<p>Under the bill, schools also would have been banned from requiring school employees to use pronouns other than the ones that match the sex on someone&#8217;s birth certificate if doing so would violate the employee&#8217;s sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions.</p>
<p>Edwards vetoed the bill at the end of June along with two other bills that dealt with gender identity.</p>
<p>One of the other bills, the Stop Harming Our Kids Act, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4077103-louisiana-gender-affirming-care-ban-vetoed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bans</a> puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries for minors in Louisiana. Both chambers of the Louisiana legislature voted Tuesday to override the governor&#8217;s veto of that bill, meaning the legislation will go into effect.</p>
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<p>The other bill the governor vetoed last month would have blocked teachers from discussing gender identity and sexual orientation in the state&#8217;s public school classrooms. That bill also <a href="https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244422" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> the override vote on Tuesday by just two votes.</p>
<p>&#8220;This bill unfairly places vulnerable children at the front lines of a vicious culture war,&#8221; Edwards <a href="https://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/2023Vetoes/HB466.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in his veto message on the classroom content bill, adding that it could result in &#8220;sanctioned bullying of LGBTQ children in schools under the guise of religious freedom.&#8221;</p>
<p>Last year, about 300,000 American teens 13 to 17 <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Pop-Update-Jun-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as transgender, a sharp increase over the previous few years. From 2017 to 2021, gender dysphoria diagnoses in children nearly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tripled</a>.</p>
<p>In the past few years, parents and teachers have clashed with schools about policies around trans-identifying students.</p>
<p>In 2017, an Indiana teacher <a href="https://apnews.com/article/indiana-teacher-lawsuit-transgender-student-names-883b50e19088614d71df25f0f835ed08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was fired</a> after he objected to using trans-identifying students&#8217; new names and pronouns. Last year, a Virginia teacher was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginia-teacher-fired-refusing-students-preferred-pronouns-speaks-out-blacklisted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> for refusing to use a trans-identifying student&#8217;s new pronouns.</p>
<p>In several states, parents have <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-lawsuit-school-maine-8003272a6c8b1111010ba42bea2ceb8e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> their <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/parents-reportedly-suing-school-district-allegedly-secretly-helped-transitioned-child" target="_blank" rel="noopener">children&#8217;s</a> school districts, claiming school personnel encouraged their children to change their gender identity behind their parents&#8217; backs.</p>
<p>In Louisiana itself, teacher Jonathan Koeppel said in 2021 that he was fired after he objected to the schools in his New Orleans-area district teaching gender ideology, as well as Critical Race Theory.</p>
<p>“I started noticing kids talking about political topics that were being brought up in other classes by their teachers, and realized that someone had to get this conversation started,” Koeppel <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/08/30/teacher-fired-after-speaking-against-gender-identity-critical-race-theory-and-mask-mandates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time. “I just happened to be that someone.”</p>

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